CHINA-GANSU-BAMBOO AND WOODEN SLIPS-MUSEUM (CN)
(231129) -- LANZHOU, Nov. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Staff member Yang Sheng checks the condition of preserved "Jiandu" at the warehouse of the Gansu Jiandu Museum in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 26, 2023. "Jiandu" are the bamboo and wooden slips on which ancient Chinese people wrote using ink and brushes before the invention of paper.
The Gansu Jiandu Museum is China's only provincial-level museum focusing on bamboo and wooden slips. It has a collection of nearly 40,000 such slips dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221-207 B.C.) and Western Jin Dynasty (265-317), and it also houses more than 10,000 other artifacts, including paper, textiles, woodenware, lacquerware and ironware. (Xinhua/Chen Bin)
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